0307473996 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. Vintage International (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Nevil Shute s most powerful novel a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life. Both terrifying and intensely moving, On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.
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0553278746 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Bantam Classics. Audience: General/trade. Postman (1985), is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by David Brin. A drifter stumbles across the uniform of an old United States Postal Service letter carrier and gives hope to a community threatened by local warlords with empty promises of aid from the "Restored United States of America". first two parts were published separately as "Postman" (1982) and "Cyclops" (1984). Both were nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novella. completed novel was awarded first prize in the John W. Campbell Award's for the best science fiction novel of the year in 1986, [1] and won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel that same year. [1] It was also nominated for Hugo[1] and Nebula[2] awards for best novel. It has been stated[by whom? ] that the impetus for the novel was as a statement against the survivalist movements in the western United States in the early 1980s.
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